Quotes About Destiny

There is irreducible chance in the universe.

The chance which now seems lost may present itself at the last moment.

How much in life is determined, and how much is due to chance?

A throw of the dice will never abolish chance.

We're deciding the fate of the multiverse with a flip of a coin. Heads or tails, doc. If that isn't a game, I don't know what is.

Free will is to mind what chance is to matter.

God casts the die, not the dice.

You think we stand a chance? (Delphine) Like an icicle on the equator. (Phobos)

Relationships are never chance events.

People destined to meet will do so, apparently by chance, at precisely the right moment.

You are you, and I am I, and if by chance we find each other, it's beautiful. If not, it can't be helped.

Todos os seres vivos merecem o aceno de uma esperança, mesmo se estão inevitavelmente condenados à morte.

Sometimes the wrong fairytale turns out to be just right!

The will of God is God's predesigned purpose for your life. The will of God is being what you are, who you are, where you are at the time. Since the steps of a good man are ordered of the Lord (Ps. 37:23), then each part of your life is directed, even when the circumstances seem otherwise.

Statesmen may plot and plan. Learned men may calculate and conclude. Diplomats may debate and prevaricate. But chance rules the immediate affairs of humankind.

Is courage just the awareness that gestures, journeys, lives have intrinsic shape, and must, one way or another, be completed?

But, like most men of destiny, he wasn't going to allow trivialities such as truth to stand in his way. •

when it comes to the caprices and manipulations of the gods or God, whichever philosophy you may embrace, we are all of us merely pawns in their games, rather than players.

If I die before he does, or he before me, eventually we both end up in the same place. That's the odd thing about life. No one gets out alive.

I'm not supposed to be here, Xy.

If one Egyptian tailor hadn't cheated on the threads of Joseph's mantle, Potiphar's wife would never have been able to tear it, present it as evidence to Potiphar that Joseph attacked her, gotten him thrown in prison, and let him be in a position to interpret Pharaoh's dream, win his confidence, advise him to store seven years of grain, and save his family, the seventy original Jews from whom Jesus came. We owe our salvation to a cheap Egyptian tailor.

Léon Bloy wrote: 'Life holds only one tragedy: not to have been a saint

I strongly suspect that if we saw all the difference even the tiniest of our prayers to God make, and all the people those little prayers were destined to affect, and all the consequences of those effects down through the centuries, we would be so paralyzed with awe at the power of prayer that we would be unable to get up off our knees for the rest of our lives.

In fact, I strongly suspect that if we saw all the difference even the tiniest of our prayers to God make, and all the people those little prayers were destined to affect, and all the consequences of those effects down through the centuries, we would be so paralyzed with awe at the power of prayer that we would be unable to get up off our knees for the rest of our lives.